From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:49:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: don't convert - delimiter to .'s
Message-ID: <f72cki$ke6$2@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <11831937823982-git-send-email-sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>

Sam Vilain wrote:

> Otherwise, a custom "v1.5.2.42.gb1ff" is considered newer than a
> "v1.5.2.1.69.gcafe"

Wouldn't it be better to do what tig did, namely put the extra part,
i.e. the number of commits since tagged revision and shortened sha1 into
REVISION rather than VERSION for an rpm for example?

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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